WP-Optimize release v3.7.0
New free and premium features – speed up content delivery and identify slow plugins
Section titled New free and premium features – speed up content delivery and identify slow pluginsWP-Optimize version 3.7.0 includes two new exciting optimisation features.
In the free version, you can now automatically preload your content when a page or post is purged or updated. This ensures that your new content is instantly available to visitors, eliminating any potential delays.
If you’re a premium user, you can now identify plugins which cause your site to slow down. With the table usage feature, you have the power to detect plugins which cause slow database queries, giving you the opportunity to replace them with faster alternatives.
Automatic preload feature (free)
Section titled Automatic preload feature (free)Existing users can enable automatic cache preloading in their settings. This is enabled by default for new users.
- Go to WP-Optimize >> Page cache >> Purge the cache.
- Tick the Automatically preload content after it is purged checkbox.
- Click the Save changes button.

Identify slow plugins feature (exclusive to premium users)
Section titled Identify slow plugins feature (exclusive to premium users)To identify slow plugins:
- Go to WP-Optimize >> Database >> Table usage.
- Click the Run the query analysis for all executed queries in this site.
- Select a plugin in Tables Usage Report to view detailed performance information.

Other improvements
Section titled Other improvementsWe’ve fixed an issue with the cache scheduling feature which prevented it functioning properly due the user ID not being set when preloading via CRON.
We’ve also fixed an inconsistency with the smush_manager_send_command
function.
For a full list of changes, please review the changelog below.
Changelog:
Section titled Changelog:- Feature: Added an option to automatically preload URLs immediately after cache content is purged.
- Feature: Premium – Gather data about table usage by filtering query event.
- Fix: Cache – Scheduled preloading wasn’t working.
- Fix: Inconsistency in
smush_manager_send_command
function. - REFACTOR: Smush – Popup styles, remove unused code.
- Tweak: Fix fatal implode error when updating to v3.5.0.
- Tweak: Image compression – Issue with cancelling smush image compression.
- Tweak: Improve module minification logic.
- Tweak: Premium – Unused images – Fixed popup when moving images to or restoring images from the trash.
- Tweak: Premium – Unused images – Placeholder images in unused images section.
- Tweak: Added
security.md
file with information to report security issues.
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